My fiance and I had planned a trip to Las Vegas to get married when we ran across the website for the Artisan hotel. After booking our wedding I became nervous after reading a few of their reviews. The first thing I did when I went to Vegas was rush to the hotel to see if it was as dumpy as the other ones we drove past. Instead, we were pleasantly suprised to find an amazing hotel, beautiful little chapel, friendly staff, and were even given a tour by one of the employees. We did not stay at the hotel (we were with a friends timeshare) but were shown a few rooms that were nice.
The day of the wedding Maria had everything planned to a T. The chapel was clean, our minister was not only wonderful but quite funny. He was able to mix the civil ceremony with a bit of religious ring blessing we requested. The photographer was great and took so many pictures! Some reviews said they push you to buy more pictures but that couldn't be further from the truth. He simply handed me a card with the website to our pictures and instructions on how to select the ones for our wedding. After viewing the pictures we realized we actually WANTED to buy more since they were great! They even squeezed in a vow renewel for our married wedding friends for almost nothing. Afterwards they let us walk around and take photos anywhere we wanted at no cost. The hotels internet camera was not hooked up but we did get a CD with our wedding on it as part of the package.
Maria was the most pleasant wonderful assistant and made me feel so at ease. They also had a beautiful little room to change into my dress that was complete with giant antique mirrors. I truly believe that if more people could see the type of wedding they provided, the term Vegas Wedding would no longer drudge up images of tacky cheesy weddings, but rather elegance and fun.
I was expecting the worst but honesty believe this was the best Vegas Wedding EVER!
